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Volume 123
No 10 No 5569 July
26, 2007 Thursday
Morrisville, VT 05661
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Area
Vandalism Info Sought |
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by Mickey Smith
MORRISTOWN
– The Morristown Police are currently investigating a spate of
graffiti seen around the Morristown and Stowe area.
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Tribble
Trial Eyeing Late Fall Start |
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by Mickey Smith
HYDE PARK – During a status conference hearing held Monday, July
23, Lamoille County District Court Judge Dennis Pearson told
legal counsels in the case of accused murderer Dennis Tribble to
tentatively plan for a November or December trial.
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Local Faces Shine at Twin State Soccer Game |
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by Mickey
Smith
Vermont Head Coach Jim Eisenhardt only knew about half of his team going into
the annual Twin State All-Star game with New Hampshire, but it was two of those
familiar faces who shined in Vermont’s 4-1 win, on Saturday, July 21.
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PAšs Lydia Bickford, far right, and team manager Amber McCullock, near right,
walk with two teammates, Jodi Martin and Courtney Chadburn, on their way to the
annual Lions Club Twin State Soccer game. Vermont, under the tutelage of Head
Coach Jim Eisenhardt, beat New Hampshire 4-1.
photo courtesy of Mark May
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Sharon Bailey greets visitors to the Crossview Open Gardens on Sunday morning,
July 22. Harold and Leila Cross will also welcome guests to their impressive
Lower Elmore Mountain Road gardens the weekends of July 28-29 and August 4-5.
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Eden
Central Loses Hartnett |
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Principal David Hartnett of Eden Central
School submitted his resignation to the Eden School Board
earlier this month. The board accepted his resignation at a
special meeting on July 12. Hartnett asked to be released from
his contract in order to pursue other possible opportunities and
to enable the board to start the search for his replacement. He
indicated in his letter to the board that he would have
submitted his letter earlier but circumstances including
“wrap-up of the Comprehensive School Wide Reform Grant and the
effort to send out the water system retrofit in a timely
fashion”, prevented him from doing so.
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Quiet Surrounds Holy Cross Priest Departure |
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by Mickey Smith
MORRISTOWN – A statement read the weekend of April 29 at Holy Cross,
in Morristown, and St. Teresa’s, in Hyde Park, remains the only
official word as to the departure of Father Paul Houde. Father Houde
also serves the parish of St. Gabriel’s in Eden which was not open
for the season at that time. Rumors abound in Lamoille County, but
no detailed explanation is forthcoming from official sources.
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Lamoille
County Pet Care |
A participant shoots his way through one of several imaginative
practical shooting courses set up at the Lamoille Valley Fish &
Game Club last weekend. The Area 7/AWARE invitational match
(Arming Women Against Rape and Endangerment) was hosted by Green
Mountain Practical Shooters. Taking part were nationally ranked
teams and shooters, including the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit.
Competitors fired at targets set up with an urban legends
theme. Austin Underwood photo
Heckler & Koch team shooter Larry Houck at the AWARE Shoot last
Friday. Rain kept some shooters away Friday, but the weekend got
better. Austin Underwood photo
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Little Things That Irk You
I heard a couple of
complaints about little things that irked folks this week. First was about
construction zones on our roads. Sure, we’re all happy our roads are being
repaved, our bridges rebuilt, and so forth, but for the most part these things
aren’t ongoing 24 hours a day. So, why don’t the signs on the interstates say
get posted with “No work after 5 p.m.” or “No work on weekends” ? I bet the
increased fines for speeding in work zones are valid 24 hours a day! Who are we
hurting if we drive through the zones at regular speed with no one there?
Then I’ve heard complaints
from folks who were shopping at local retail outlets. It seems that the practice
is now for a clerk to take your cash and immediately tuck it away in the
register or drop it through a slot in the floor (whatever). But – what happens
when you are given back change from a $10 bill instead of from the $20 you
handed the clerk? Immediately it’s a you said, I said; I remember, you remember
situation. The clerk may look at you disgustedly or pleadingly hoping you will
just accept you got shafted and you will leave. Or maybe the manager gets
called.
Of course, the delay in
moving on and the line at the register just get longer from there. What happened
to training clerks how to make change and count it back? Weren’t you taught to
take the bills you are offered in payment and set them, or it, on the cash
drawer in plain sight – separate from the other money – until the change has
been returned and accepted by the customer? Such a simple process keeps
everything and everyone moving along and does not set the customer up against
the clerk and the store management. Instead the truth can plainly be observed
and there’s no counting of cash drawers or implied lack of trust in the
customer.
Yes, those computerized registers are fine, but even they have to
be used with common sense. It’s not quite enough just to plug the cash away and
snatch out the change it tells you to deliver.